10 Things Alex Honnold Can't Live Without | GQ Sports

This is like a child piling up all his toys and I'm so proud of myself, forget about all my toys. Hello GQ. I'm Alex Honnold and these are my errand-running essentials. You say, yes. The keys, the phone wallet and the climbing shoes. a shark bag, you know, I have used hundreds of dog bags in my life and I will surely use hundreds more. This is the same color. The style is the one I used in the free-rider. My sponsor, Gotham black, matches quite well. The free-rider on our bag looks like I signed my own chalk bag, but that's not the case, they're actually made that way.

The harness is signed by me, but that's because they are both made by a sponsor of mine who is selling. To benefit my foundations, my Foundation supports all our projects around the world for their access to clean energy, so a portion of these two articles support the base. The brush is only for removing old chalk. Lives in the chalk bag. Shoes are just finding shoes. I mean, you usually have a different type of shoe for each style of climbing you're trying to do. This is just what I have with me right now, basically, since I need them for something I hope to try in two weeks.

There is a project. I've been working here at my house in Las Vegas, which is a very hard overhanging cave and so you want an aggressively angled downward shot? They could go into small pockets. I don't know if you can see the hook shape of the shoe. the toe is not curved so it's like a hook and also how soft it is in the middle so you can really bend your foot if you're climbing a really steep wall, your toes can smell like edge, this one particular model is like a Ferrari of climbing shoes it's really high performance for the aggressive.

Shoes like this don't last long, it depends on how you use them and how much you're climbing, but maybe six months, this particular harness is a nice, stylish one for you. I know that it is a light harness, as comfortable as it is pleasant. I mean, different hardnesses do different

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. This is a great all-purpose harness, which is why I use it. I use it for everything like climbing big walls and he sent me this. Climbing to the gym with this, I do everything with this harness nowadays, most harnesses automatically fold back which means the buckle has already moved twice and is built that way so basically you just I have to check that the hole is still intact and then otherwise it's all there, you know if you go to the gym, go outdoors or do whatever you need, just the shoes are in a bag, it's always a Treo , travel essentials or maybe just life essentials, a humming wallet, obviously, phone, laptop chargers and such Noise Canceling Headphones which I love, I try not to fly without headphones or arcs, but they're just, you know, noise-cancelling headphones.

I always put on classical music or like soundtrack type music very softly and then I pass out, I think in a couple more years. I'll probably end up with the wireless there, but for now they work on a laptop, they actually look a lot like headphones and work fine, but it's mid 2012, you know, it's getting a little tired, it works fine, yeah my cricketer has relatively life. the laptop case was actually a gift, I think probably in 2008, maybe from a weather photographer who saw me doing it on occasions like this and I've used it ever since, it's probably been 10 years.

I was thinking today I thought maybe I will. I will replace this one day, but for now it is on your doorstep, the wallet I think was a gift from someone a long time ago, but it's just a wallet, we have a lot of stuff in it, I have my national parks pass right in front of it, I more important. The funny thing is that the clip phone is an iPhone se, but I actually like the SD because it's like the smaller model, this kind of thing just stays in your luggage, you know, this is just for traveling.

I mean, when I go climbing, I definitely don't do it. I worry about this kind of thing, but I usually climb with my phone, almost always take photos of the map before going, and then when you're halfway up a wall, you zoom in on the photo and say, "eh, not this." . It doesn't look very good. I wonder if we're going to do it, it actually fits really well under your harness. I don't have a wristband or anything like that. I don't think anyone has a wristband. I don't have any type. from the accessory for my phone I feel like if you fall off the mountain you fall into honey.

This case is also maybe five years old, so all the plastic parts are falling off. I removed the screen protector part because everything fell off. I scratched to see and all the plastic broke and they will probably replace it. They do everything I like. Well, it's practically garbage, but you know exactly next year everything will burn there. We have essential elements for life. Know? A sweater for when I'm cold. A bottle of water everywhere. I'm thirsty. And then I have snacks for when I'm hungry. This is what I'm traveling with Brenna, so you have protein powder.

It's like a Jim post. chocolate good snack I have some fruits shelled pistachios are much easier to travel with it's like you're on a plane it's so sweet she keeps showing it you know openly a treacherous state I definitely eat a lot more pistachios when they're already full I think it's okay because , like yesterday, during a long day of traveling and flying and stuff, basically, I eat an apple or a pepper almost every day, I just ate a piece of fruit and then protein powder, this is a basic workout in the gym after from climbing, you know, fill it with water and drink it.

I feel like you'll probably recover better and actually with travel it's perfect because that way you stay hydrated because if you make a little bit of a protein drink in it, then you drink that, then you have to rinse it again, shake it out and clean it and then you drink that and then you're double or triple hydrated because you've had to clean your model. all about happy, the half liter travel size is a very light layer, but it's because I don't have a big jacket here, I know because the weight is summer; I mean light layers are often enough in the summer, but actually I would say also a layer like this doubles as the Sun layer, which is sometimes even more important than a warm fire.

You know, if you're hiking in the mountains or on glaciers and

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like that, you only need a little bit. Long sleeve type to protect you from the sun I use sunscreen when I need it I should probably use more. I'll look like a leather bag under the training journal, just a random notebook so I can keep track of workouts and to-dos. lists and what days I should be doing things it actually has a little collector photo of one of my friends on the back he is also a professional climber I hope you see this on the desk Jonathan Siegrist has a sticker of himself although it is very strong so it's Good, good inspiration.

I think since 2005 I've had a climbing diary and then I've kept track of everything. I'm fine. I think it's important to track your efforts, so if you know like 312 total, I work in Resta and San Diego, cut back on travel. eight well, five hours of sleep plus an hour and a half nap normally, it's more like eight hours of sleep if I can, but that's the smartest work trip, it means I probably flew from one place to another, you know, it's probably It's all crazy, but it's nice to me. look back on a month of training and see what worked because with any type of real training process the progress is so gradual, you basically always try as hard as before, but your numbers start to improve over a month or so. for several months, so if you don't have it written down, you basically feel like you're not getting better because you're always trying so hard to achieve it, and you look back and think, oh, I'm actually using twice as much weight. as it was when I started, that's pretty satisfying, it's all about taking notes, so here are the essentials for outdoor climbing to a certain extent.

I have approaches for walking up to the wall, preferably sticky rubber at the bottom so you can climb a steep slope. rock and don't fall to your death these shoes are discontinued but they are already made but when they stopped making them the manager of the athlete from that company sent me like 14 pairs of the same shoe because you know how much I liked it and he knew they were going so that I have maybe the last, the second or the last pair that I have been wearing for more than five years or something like that.

I have a backpack to carry all your equipment. This is actually a great backpack. This is a microfiber of terrestrial origin. 5 liters and you can see the size there as an instruction. This has been dragged up big walls in the world and I just hang things up. They sent me a prototype of this bag before it was manufactured maybe six or seven years ago and I used that one. for many years and then they asked me to send it back to the office and now it's on the office wall which is great, so they sent me this is a replacement a couple of years ago and I think this is correct.

Lasts at least another five years. You know, every once in a while you do a mission where you get dragged through a wall and you punch a hole in it and then it's hard. Know? I have a couple small holes on the sides. Things like this that don't I don't need you to be there because it doesn't matter at all, a couple of these scuff marks were actually from luggage handling which is very annoying, you can drag it outside on a rock all day and then just a Weird little luggage carousel will destroy a bag. It's totally annoying, we said quickdraws, this little Clippy deal is what you need for outdoor climbing, I basically hooked it to the rock, although I have this one in particular more so that when I'm traveling to climbing gyms right now I have a way to tie weights to my harness and remove the train, it's basically like lifting weights for your fingers, if you're hanging over the small edge and you just add more weight, it just makes your finger stronger, the idea is that if you train with a lot of weight when you take the weight off you feel quite strong and then you climb the rope, which is essential for sure, although perhaps it is known for Riesling.

You know, I still do 99% of my climbing on the rope. This is also an Alex Honnold. Signature Series also benefits the Arab sponsor's foundation. This photo of me rock climbing on the front of the rope that a friend of mine took. It is a kind of famous crack in Switzerland. It's actually a big rope, so it's nine point one millimeter long. You can measure the width of the string, you often think in grams per meter, so you are thinking about the weight of the string per length, you can assume that based on the width of the string, a nine is much lighter than normally a nine six, which is a lot lighter than a ten five or something like that, so they see you want a thin string, but you want a thin string that still passes all the safety ratings that you know, that doesn't cut into the edges and so on and that do not do it. breaking this rope is a 911 that is quite thin but it is also extremely durable as this Maxim air liner will last forever most of the time on a rope it builds up at the ends because when you fall they usually catch you let's say you are cycling. six or eight feet away from where it was, so most of the wear on the rope accumulates in the last 20 feet as the rope is used more and more, even just cutting off the last 15 to 20 feet, You already know that this is a 70 meter rope.

And then your 70 meter row becomes 65 and then it becomes 60 and then it becomes 55, but with a good rope you can keep using it up to 50 and finally you just cut it in half. because your gym rope, so a rope like this could last five years straight, all my ropes at home are kept in row bags, you know, basically, to protect them from dirt and sand, and that's why I often put. tape on the outside there's nothing to label what's inside you know this is a 55 meter rope this is a 100 meter rope because different links are for different things but yeah I mean ropes are very important